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State revenues have fallen $2.2 billion below projections, triggering automatic midyear reductions to public schools, universities and colleges, Medi-Cal, and in-home support for seniors and the disabled, Brown said Tuesday. School districts around the state are faced with handling the shortfall.

Under a deal reached with Democrats during the summer, about $2.4 billion in automatic cuts would have been triggered. The figure announced Tuesday was less than expected.

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"The trigger cuts are going into effect, but fortunately not the full $2.4 billion, but actually slightly less than a billion," Brown said. "They're not good. It's not the way we'd like to run California, but we have to live within our means."

Automatic midyear reductions to public schools, universities and colleges, Medi-Cal, and in-home support for seniors and the disabled, are scheduled to take effect Jan. 1.

The cuts drew reaction from students at an LA magnet school earlier Tuesday.

"It's a sad day for California," State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said in a statement. "Mothballing school bus fleets across the state will mean many rural, disabled, and low-income students literally will have no safe way to get to school."